How do litigation funders raise capital and how do they spend it? What are their corporate and financial structures? What types of cases do they invest in and what are their returns? What contractual structures do they use? What are the key legal issues relating to litigation funding?

Published in June 2024, the second edition of The Law and Business of Litigation Finance answers these questions and expands on the topics addressed in the first edition as well. It is an essential guide for those who seek to provide litigation funding, as well as for anyone who wishes to understand the litigation funding process.

The Second Edition includes:

– New content covering the commercial and finance aspects of litigation finance, examining the different stakeholders, what they seek to achieve, and the risks and rewards that attract them
– Increased coverage of the position in Australia, continental Europe and jurisdictions such as Singapore and Hong Kong
– Updated case law including recent high profile cases in the UK, USA and Australia, and a comprehensive record of relevant legislation and regulations in those jurisdictions

Edited by one of the most accomplished litigation innovators in the international market with contributions from leading experts, this is a must-have guide for all lawyers, commercial court judges, legal policy makers, regulators, investors, and academics in these jurisdictions.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional’s Practice and Procedure online service.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2.  A brief history of third-party litigation funding in the UK, US and elsewhere in the common law
  3.  Regulation and legislation
  4. Third-party litigation financing and lawyers’ ethical obligations
  5. Privilege and confidentiality
  6. The litigation funding agreement
  7. Adverse costs and security for costs
  8. Insurance
  9. Other methods of financing litigation
  10. Types of litigation and arbitration that attract and are attractive to litigation finance
  11. The different stakeholders and their interests
  12. Tax
The Law and Business of Litigation Finance

The book can be purchased from Bloomsbury Professional here.

Excerpts from the book.

Foreword to The Law and Business of Litigation Finance by Sir Rupert Jackson

Foreword to The Law and Business of Litigation Finance by Shira A. Scheindlin

Chapter excerpt: The Law and Business of Litigation Finance – Adverse costs and security for costs

Chapter excerpt: The Law and Business of Litigation Finance – Tax

The book can be purchased from Bloomsbury Professional here.